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Take your finance career
to the next level

We are creating a new regional Finance Hub team who will work together with colleagues from across Finance to support our businesses in delivering the best outcome for our patients and consumers.

Our new European GSK Finance Hub based in Poznan and Warsaw will be part of a global network of regional Finance Hubs where we bring together our end-to-end finance processes of Close & Control and Planning & Forecasting, as well as other specialist accounting activities such as production accounting and R&D deal and alliance accounting.

Our regional finance hubs will be centres of expertise for these activities. They will work together as one finance team to share best practice and knowledge working closely with other markets and colleagues from our global headquarters in London.

Come with us on our journey as we transform Finance at GSK

As we become a more modern and technology-led Finance function that delivers world class service, you will have opportunities to drive process automation, standardise delivery, improve user experience and implement new technologies such as robotics and analytics. You will also be able to build new capabilities as you develop and grow in your role at GSK.

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Functional areas at #GSKFinanceHub

To support our businesses across Europe, the Finance Hub is proposed to include:

Financial Reporting activities

Oversight of transactional accounting activities

Production Accounting

Global R&D Finance

Corporate Accounting & Governance – Corporate Specialist Accounting

Planning & Forecasting

To support our businesses across Europe, the Finance Hub is proposed to include:

Financial Reporting activities (R2R):

Oversight of close process, review & analysis of the Balance Sheet and P&L

Provision of accurate & timely entity reporting for the purpose of internal consolidation and external reporting

Financial Reporting Managers manage senior stakeholders, Internal and External Auditors and drive resolution of issues and process improvement. They are supported by Team Leaders, Senior Accountants and Accountants.

Oversight of transactional accounting activities:

Transactional work is performed by our Third party BPO partner located in India

Service Delivery Leads manage the delivery of transactional activities performed by Third party BPO partner. The team is organised by Global Centre of Expertise: Fixed Asset Accounting, Intercompany Accounting, Inventory & Intercompany Profit Management Tool Accounting, and Master Data Management

Service Delivery Leaders will be supported by Process Improvement Experts to oversee and drive performance & continuous improvement.

Production Accounting:

Ownership of the Production Accounting close process on behalf of and in conjunction with the Production Site

Includes review of P&L and in scope Balance Sheet accounts e.g. Purchase Price Variance (PPV); Material Usage (MUV); Recoveries; Inventory; and Deferrals to ensure month end reporting is done in an accurate and timely manner

Drive issue resolution and adoption of a continuous improvement mindset

Partnering with R&D Business stakeholders, Finance Directors, World Wide Business Development and external Alliance Partners on all aspects of the alliance, including settlements, budget preparation and month-end actuals reporting as well as providing insightful commentary and budget variance analysis.

Global R&D Planning/Forecasting and Reporting

Provision of insightful budget management and reporting to R&D management

Financial management of all Internal Department/Team Budgets and forecasts and External Project Expenditures

Budget preparation and month-end actuals reporting as well as providing insightful commentary and budget variance analysis.

Planning & Forecasting

Improving quality of the planning process by applying standardization and making the most of our
investments in systems and technology

Preparing internal management reports for executive leadership and decision making

Continuously improving through use of new technologies and driving best practices

The Corporate Accounting & Governance team consists of three key areas:

Global Alliances & Licensing

Accountable for financial compliance of 100+ Licensing and Alliance agreements. In particular
being responsible for Royalty and Collaboration cost-sharing clauses.

Responsible for managing the accuracy and timeliness of payments in excess of £1bn and that
the accounting for these transactions is correctly reflected in GSK’s books and records.

Partnering with GSK-wide stakeholders including ViiV, Vaccines and Pharma, as well as Legal,
Business Development and external Alliance Partners on all aspects of the agreements.

Corporate Sundry

Corporate Sundry includes costs which by their nature may be difficult to allocate to a specific
business unit, or costs that have been incurred centrally and require recharging to the business.

These costs include: UK/US Pensions, UK/US Long-term Incentives, UK/US Insurance and Global
Health Programmes. The team is responsible for the management of actuals, planning and
forecasting for these items.

High-profile team that has regular interaction with senior stakeholders including the Group
Financial Controller.

Long-term Incentives & Directors’ Remuneration Reporting

Manage the reporting and forecasting of Long-term Incentives Accounting (IFRS2).

Accountable for the co-ordination of the financial information in the Directors Remuneration
Report for GSK, ViiV, Consumer JV and Galvani and ensuring all disclosures are in accordance
with the UK Companies Act.

High-profile team that has regular interaction with senior stakeholders including the Company
Secretary and Group Financial Controller.

GSK’s proposed new Finance Operating Model

Complex financial reporting close and control activities and oversight of BPORoutine, transactional activities

Corporate & Specialist Finance

Regional Finance Hubs

Transactional Services (BPO)

Business partnering/ Embedded finance

Corporate and specialist activities like Tax, Group consolidation, TreasuryFinance decision support and business partnering